Sahitya-kaumudi by Baladeva Vidyabhushana
by Gaurapada Dāsa | 2015 | 234,703 words
Baladeva Vidyabhusana’s Sahitya-kaumudi covers all aspects of poetical theory except the topic of dramaturgy. All the definitions of poetical concepts are taken from Mammata’s Kavya-prakasha, the most authoritative work on Sanskrit poetical rhetoric. Baladeva Vidyabhushana added the eleventh chapter, where he expounds additional ornaments from Visv...
Text 11.11 [Gupti]
न लक्ष्यते स्फुटं यत्र पद-सन्धान-कौशलात् ।
क्रियादि सद् अपि प्राज्ञैः क्रिया-गुप्तादि तत् स्मृतम् ॥ ११.४ ॥
na lakṣyate sphuṭaṃ yatra pada-sandhāna-kauśalāt |
kriyādi sad api prājñaiḥ kriyā-guptādi tat smṛtam ||11.4||
When a word such as a verb is not clearly perceived, though it exists, because of the excellence of the phonetic combination, that is known as kriyā-gupti (concealment of an action) and so on by knowledgeable persons.